🇷🇺🇺🇦 In the morning, Crimean scouts attacked enemy positions on the islands near Kherson on the Dnieper.

🇺🇲🇺🇦🇷🇺 "The CIA is actively involved in the war without violating the Biden administration's core promise that the US military will not be directly involved in the conflict" - Newsweek

The main thing from the investigation about the work of the CIA in Ukraine:
▪️ CIA officers are constantly in Ukraine , but their activities are strictly regulated, and the number is limited.
▪️Their tasks include working with weapons, communication with the Ukrainian special services, control that "the situation does not go beyond certain limits."
▪️ The CIA oversees significant amounts of American military assistance to Kiev, which are kept secret .
▪️The secret service is working not only to help Ukraine (mainly by passing intelligence), but also trying to find out the true plans of Zelensky and Putin.

🇺🇸 🇲🇽 Republicans’ New Border Plan: Send Military Into Mexico

GOP candidates and lawmakers want to use the U.S. military to battle drug cartels

Former President Donald Trump, who has previously called for building a wall along the southern border and giving drug dealers the death penalty, has also proposed creating a naval blockade of Mexico to prevent drugs like illicit fentanyl from entering the U.S. His leading opponent in the 2024 GOP nomination race, Florida

Gov. Ron DeSantis, promised last week to use “deadly force” against anyone caught smuggling drugs across the border.

On Capitol Hill, Sens. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) and John Kennedy (R., La.) have both voiced support for military operations in Mexico. Sen. J.D. Vance (R., Ohio) said in a recent interview on NBC that cartels should be considered terrorist organizations, meriting a military response. And Reps. Dan Crenshaw (R., Texas) and Mike Waltz (R., Fla.) have sponsored a bill that would formally declare war on the cartels—meaning the military would be authorized to drop bombs on cartel targets.

There is a simple reason the idea of a military intervention keeps cropping up—it is popular, and not just with Republicans. In an NBC poll taken in late June, sending troops to the border to stop drugs was the single best-liked of 11 GOP proposals tested with Republican primary voters. And it was the only one that gained support from a majority of all registered voters. 

DeSantis has for months advocated blockading legal ports of entry with Mexico, where nearly all the illicit fentanyl is thought to be smuggled in from Mexico. But in the first formal policy rollout of his campaign, DeSantis escalated that language, saying anyone caught at the border with drugs could be shot.

 “You’re already on U.S. soil once you’re cutting through the wall. You have hostile intent,” DeSantis said at the Texas border last week. “You absolutely can use deadly force.…We absolutely can respond if you’re breaking into our country and sawing through a border wall.”

In 2019, Trump sent thousands of troops to the border to assist with a surge of asylum-seeking migrants—though the troops weren’t actually allowed to perform arrests and they didn’t cross into Mexico. Biden did the same this spring as his administration anticipated a wave of illegal migration associated with the end of Title 42, a pandemic-era border policy.

As president, Trump floated to aides the idea of shooting migrants in the legs to deter them from crossing into the U.S. illegally, according to people familiar with his thinking—though he never voiced the idea publicly.

https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/republicans-new-border-plan-send-military-into-mexico-42121a5e

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 The warhead of the kamikaze drone "Geran", which fell on Ukrainian positions somewhere in the Zaporozhye region.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The destruction of the Ukrainian armored personnel carrier YPR-765 near the village of Rabotino.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Destruction of an enemy observation post from an anti-tank system.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Trophies of a serviceman of the 71st SME of the 42nd Division of the Southern Military District and a turret from the BMP M2 Bradley, which was destroyed in the Orekhov direction during the fighting.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The commander of the artillery unit of the 200th brigade showed footage of the destruction of a Polish-made 155-mm self-propelled gun Krab on the outskirts of Soledar.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Krasnoliman direction. A drone with a thermal imager detected an enemy armored personnel carrier, then it was destroyed by a well-aimed hit.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Up-to-date satellite imagery of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant refutes Kiev's claims about the alleged placement of explosive devices on the roofs.

🇺🇲🇺🇦❗️Ukraine must carry out reforms, meet the same NATO standards as other countries, before it can be accepted into the alliance - White House

🇷🇺 During a search of Yevgeny Viktorovich's house, they found a photograph in a frame, which depicts the severed heads of ISIS fighters lying heaped on the ground

🇩🇪⚡German law enforcement authorities detained on Thursday seven Islamists who were going to stage a terrorist attack, the German Prosecutor General's Office said.

We are talking about five citizens of Tajikistan, one citizen of Turkmenistan and one citizen of Kyrgyzstan. All of them arrived in Germany in the spring of 2022 from the territory of Ukraine, according to a press release.

🇷🇺🇺🇲❗️СNN, citing the US Department of Defense, reports that Russian Su-35S fighters intercepted three American MQ-9 Reaper reconnaissance UAVs over northeast Syria.

“Contrary to established norms and protocols, Russian aircraft dropped several parachute bombs in front of the drones , forcing our drones to perform evasive maneuvers,” said Air Force Lieutenant General Alex Grinkevich. “In addition, one Russian pilot turned on the afterburner in front of the MQ-9, thereby reducing the operator’s ability to safely fly the UAV.”

The US Department of Defense publishes footage of the incident, which shows a close flight of the Su-35S and the release of luminous SAB-250-200 aerial bombs along the course of American drones.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Effective destruction of a BMP-2 with the help of the Lancet.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The defeat of the Ukrainian 122-mm self-propelled guns 2S1 "Carnation" by "Lancet".

🇷🇸🇽🇰⚡Belgrade will consider the proposal of the Serbian List party to designate special forces and special services controlled by the self-proclaimed Kosovo authorities as terrorist organizations operating in the north of the autonomous province of Kosovo and Metohija, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said during his address to the nation.